Triple

T1196937
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject My Lai massacre E25688 entity
Predicate location P40 FINISHED
Object My Lai hamlet
My Lai hamlet is a village in Quảng Ngãi Province, Vietnam, infamous as the site of a mass killing of unarmed civilians by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.
E25688 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: My Lai hamlet | Statement: [My Lai massacre, location, My Lai hamlet]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: My Lai hamlet
Context triple: [My Lai massacre, location, My Lai hamlet]
  • A. My Lai massacre
    The My Lai massacre was a notorious 1968 atrocity during the Vietnam War in which U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, becoming a symbol of the conflict’s brutality and sparking widespread outrage.
  • B. Huế Massacre
    The Huế Massacre was a mass killing of thousands of civilians and prisoners by communist forces during their occupation of the city of Huế in the 1968 Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.
  • C. Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
    Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia is a 1979 documentary film that exposes the devastation and human suffering in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge regime and the impact of Western policies on the country.
  • D. Crypt of the Unknown from the Vietnam War
    The Crypt of the Unknown from the Vietnam War is a burial vault at Arlington National Cemetery that once honored an unidentified American service member from the Vietnam War as part of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
  • E. Behind the Front
    "Behind the Front" is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Black Eyed Peas, showcasing their early alternative and socially conscious rap style before their later pop-oriented success.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: My Lai hamlet
Triple: [My Lai massacre, location, My Lai hamlet]
Generated description
My Lai hamlet is a village in Quảng Ngãi Province, Vietnam, infamous as the site of a mass killing of unarmed civilians by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: My Lai hamlet
Target entity description: My Lai hamlet is a village in Quảng Ngãi Province, Vietnam, infamous as the site of a mass killing of unarmed civilians by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.
  • A. My Lai massacre chosen
    The My Lai massacre was a notorious 1968 atrocity during the Vietnam War in which U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, becoming a symbol of the conflict’s brutality and sparking widespread outrage.
  • B. Huế Massacre
    The Huế Massacre was a mass killing of thousands of civilians and prisoners by communist forces during their occupation of the city of Huế in the 1968 Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.
  • C. Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
    Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia is a 1979 documentary film that exposes the devastation and human suffering in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge regime and the impact of Western policies on the country.
  • D. Crypt of the Unknown from the Vietnam War
    The Crypt of the Unknown from the Vietnam War is a burial vault at Arlington National Cemetery that once honored an unidentified American service member from the Vietnam War as part of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
  • E. Behind the Front
    "Behind the Front" is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Black Eyed Peas, showcasing their early alternative and socially conscious rap style before their later pop-oriented success.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a49429f5ec8190a6a205eb0ae81e5e completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bd9a305c819091513394f1b67784 completed March 1, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac7658cae8819081da26480926ff83 completed March 7, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac770141a88190b71552d46fb4d2ad completed March 7, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac777a7768819098b9d4dd771a6750 completed March 7, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.